SetNotificationPreferences
Use this call to manage notification and alert preferences for a user or an application. Notifications and alerts update users and applications about events on the eBay site, and help reduce the number of times your application needs to make API calls to retrieve information.
Usage Details
SetNotificationPreferences sets up event notifications based on event types and preferences that you specify in the request. A successful request subscribes a user or application to notifications about events on the eBay site.
Before using this call, review the Platform Notifications Guide to understand the requirements and limitations of the Platform Notifications feature.
SetNotificationPreferences is part of eBay Platform Notifications, an optional feature that alerts applications and/or users when certain events occur on the eBay site. This feature is used by two separate eBay services:
- The eBay Platform Notifications
- The eBay Client Alerts API
Notifications are a great way to get real-time information about events on the eBay site, but you should always use API calls to make sure you are getting the information you need. For example, if you have subscribed to AuctionCheckoutComplete notification, you should also set up periodic polling of GetOrders.
Your application should respond to notifications with a standard HTTP status of 200 OK. After a significant number of unacknowledged notifications, eBay may stop sending notifications to your application.
Related Information
See Platform Notifications Guide.
See also the reference documentation for this call:
- GetNotificationPreferences - Retrieves the requesting application's notification preferences.
Input
See also Samples.
The box below lists all fields that could be included in the call request. To learn more about an individual field or its type, click its name in the box (or scroll down to find it in the table below the box).
See also the Deprecated Objects link above. Fields presented in this color are deprecated, and fields presented in this color are (or soon will be) non-operational.
The XML prototype does not include requester credentials. This is a documentation limitation only (see Standard Requester Credentials for Making Calls).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <SetNotificationPreferencesRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> <!-- Call-specific Input Fields --> <ApplicationDeliveryPreferences> ApplicationDeliveryPreferencesType <AlertEmail> anyURI </AlertEmail> <AlertEnable> EnableCodeType </AlertEnable> <ApplicationEnable> EnableCodeType </ApplicationEnable> <ApplicationURL> anyURI </ApplicationURL> <DeliveryURLDetails> DeliveryURLDetailType <DeliveryURL> anyURI </DeliveryURL> <DeliveryURLName> string </DeliveryURLName> <Status> EnableCodeType </Status> </DeliveryURLDetails> <!-- ... more DeliveryURLDetails nodes allowed here ... --> <DeviceType> DeviceTypeCodeType </DeviceType> <PayloadVersion> string </PayloadVersion> </ApplicationDeliveryPreferences> <DeliveryURLName> string </DeliveryURLName> <EventProperty> NotificationEventPropertyType <EventType> NotificationEventTypeCodeType </EventType> <Name> NotificationEventPropertyNameCodeType </Name> <Value> string </Value> </EventProperty> <!-- ... more EventProperty nodes allowed here ... --> <UserData> NotificationUserDataType <ExternalUserData> string </ExternalUserData> </UserData> <UserDeliveryPreferenceArray> NotificationEnableArrayType <NotificationEnable> NotificationEnableType <EventEnable> EnableCodeType </EventEnable> <EventType> NotificationEventTypeCodeType </EventType> </NotificationEnable> <!-- ... more NotificationEnable nodes allowed here ... --> </UserDeliveryPreferenceArray> <!-- Standard Input Fields --> <ErrorLanguage> string </ErrorLanguage> <MessageID> string </MessageID> <Version> string </Version> <WarningLevel> WarningLevelCodeType </WarningLevel> </SetNotificationPreferencesRequest>
| Argument | Type | Occurrence | Meaning |
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.AlertEmail anyURI Optional The email address to which eBay sends all application markup and markdown event notifications. When setting the email address, input must be in the format "
mailto://youremailaddress@yoursite.com". Note that the AlertEnable field must be set to Enable for alert emails to be sent.
.AlertEnable EnableCodeType Optional For SetNotificationPreferences: include and set AlertEnable to
Enable to receive application markup and markdown alerts, or set to Disable to disable the alerts. If not included, the AlertEnable defaults to its current value. For GetNotificationPreferences: this field's value indicates whether application markup and markdown alerts are enabled or disabled.
Applicable values:
.ApplicationEnable EnableCodeType Optional This field allows the user to enable or disable Platform Notifications and Client Alerts. Notice that disabling Platform Notifications and Client Alerts will not affect others preferences set in this container.
Applicable values:
.ApplicationURL anyURI Optional The URL to which eBay delivers all Platform Notifications and Client Alerts sent to the application. For delivery to a server, the URL must begin with "
https://" and must be well formed.
.DeliveryURLDetails DeliveryURLDetailType Optional,
repeatable: [0..*] Defines settings for notification URLs (including the URL name in DeliveryURLName). You define settings for up to 25 notification URLs (including the URL name in DeliveryURLName) in separate DeliveryURLDetails containers. Associate a user token with notification URLs by using the token in a SetNotificationPreferences request that specifies the URL name or names in SetNotificationPreferencesRequest.DeliveryURLName. Use comma-separated format to specify multiple URL names in SetNotificationPreferencesRequest.DeliveryURLName. Notifications will be sent to these URL(s) if ApplicationDeliveryPreferencesType.ApplicationEnable is set to Enable.
.DeliveryURLDetails
.DeliveryURL anyURI Optional The address of a notification delivery URL. This address applies to the DeliveryURLName within the same ApplicationDeliveryPreferences.DeliveryURLDetails container. For delivery to a server, the URL must begin with "
https://" and must be well formed. Use a URL that is functional at the time of the call.
.DeliveryURLDetails
.DeliveryURLName string Optional The name of a notification delivery URL. You can list up to 25 instances of DeliveryURLName, and then subscribe these URLs to notifications by listing them in comma- separated format in the DeliveryURLName element outside of ApplicationDeliveryPreferences.
.DeliveryURLDetails.Status EnableCodeType Optional The status of a notification delivery URL. This status applies to the DeliveryURLName and delivery URL within the same ApplicationDeliveryPreferences.DeliveryURLDetails container. If the status is disabled, then notifications will not be sent to the delivery URL.
Applicable values:
.DeviceType DeviceTypeCodeType Optional The means of receipt of notification. In most cases, it is Platform (typical API calls and web interaction), so this is the default, if not specified. For wireless applications, use SMS. Do not test Client Alerts in production if you are currently using Platform Notifications.
Applicable values:
.PayloadVersion string Optional Use this field to specify the API version for all notifications for the calling application. If you do not specify PayloadVersion in SetNotificationPreferences, the API version for notifications will be based on the API version specified in your SetNotificationPreferences call.
repeatable: [0..*] Characteristics or details of an event such as type, name and value. Currently can only be set for wireless applications.
Applicable values: See EventType.
Applicable values:
.NotificationEnable NotificationEnableType Conditional,
repeatable: [0..*] In a SetNotificationPreferences call, one NotificationEnable container is used for each notification that the user either wants to subsribe to or disable.
If a UserDeliveryPreferenceArray container is used, at least one NotificationEnable container must be specified.
In a GetNotificationPreferences call, one NotificationEnable container is returned for each notification that the user has set a preference on - enabled or disabled.
.NotificationEnable
.EventEnable EnableCodeType Optional Whether the event is enabled or disabled.
Applicable values:
.NotificationEnable.EventType NotificationEventTypeCodeType Optional The name of the notification event.
Applicable values: See EventType.
| ErrorLanguage | string | Optional |
Use ErrorLanguage to return error strings for the call in a different language from the language commonly associated with the site that the requesting user is registered with. Below are some examples from different countries.
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| MessageID | string | Optional |
Most Trading API calls support a MessageID element in the request and a CorrelationID element in the response. If you pass in a MessageID in a request, the same value will be returned in the CorrelationID field in the response. Pairing these values can help you track and confirm that a response is returned for every request and to match specific responses to specific requests. If you do not pass a MessageID value in the request, CorrelationID is not returned. Note: GetCategories is designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, the MessageID and CorrelationID fields aren't applicable. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, MessageID and CorrelationID are applicable. |
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| Version | string | Conditional |
The version number of the API code that you are programming against (e.g., 1149). The version you specify for a call has these basic effects:
For the SOAP API: If you are using the SOAP API, this field is required. Specify the version of the WSDL your application is using. For the XML API: If you are using the XML API, this field has no effect. Instead, specify the version in the X-EBAY-API-COMPATIBILITY-LEVEL HTTP header. (If you specify Version in the body of an XML API request and it is different from the value in the HTTP header, eBay returns an informational warning that the value in the HTTP header was used instead.) See:
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| WarningLevel | WarningLevelCodeType | Optional |
Controls whether or not to return warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in a request. An unrecognized element is one that is not defined in any supported version of the schema. Schema element names are case-sensitive, so using WarningLevel can also help you remove any potential hidden bugs within your application due to incorrect case or spelling in field names before you put your application into the Production environment. WarningLevel only validates elements; it doesn't validate XML attributes. It also doesn't control warnings related to user-entered strings or numbers, or warnings for logical errors. We recommend that you only use this during development and debugging. Do not use this in requests performed in the Production environment. Applicable values: High if the user wishes to receive warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in an API call request. Setting the WarningLevel value to High is not recommended in a production environment. Instead, it should only be used during the development/debugging stage.Low if the user does not wish to receive warnings when the application passes unrecognized or deprecated elements in an API call request. This is the default value if WarningLevel is not specified in the call request.See Warning Level. |
Output
See also Samples.
The box below lists all fields that might be returned in the response. To learn more about an individual field or its type, click its name in the box (or scroll down to find it in the table below the box).
See also the Deprecated Objects link above. Fields presented in this color are deprecated, and fields presented in this color are not returned (or soon will not be returned) or are not operational (or soon will be non-operational).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <SetNotificationPreferencesResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents"> <!-- (No call-specific Output fields) --> <!-- Standard Output Fields --> <Ack> AckCodeType </Ack> <Build> string </Build> <CorrelationID> string </CorrelationID> <Errors> ErrorType <ErrorClassification> ErrorClassificationCodeType </ErrorClassification> <ErrorCode> token </ErrorCode> <ErrorParameters ParamID="string"> ErrorParameterType <Value> string </Value> </ErrorParameters> <!-- ... more ErrorParameters nodes allowed here ... --> <LongMessage> string </LongMessage> <SeverityCode> SeverityCodeType </SeverityCode> <ShortMessage> string </ShortMessage> </Errors> <!-- ... more Errors nodes allowed here ... --> <HardExpirationWarning> string </HardExpirationWarning> <Timestamp> dateTime </Timestamp> <Version> string </Version> </SetNotificationPreferencesResponse>
| Return Value | Type | Occurrence | Meaning |
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Applicable values:
(Not all values in AckCodeType apply to this field.)
Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
Note: GetCategories is designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, the MessageID and CorrelationID fields aren't applicable. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, MessageID and CorrelationID are applicable.
repeatable: [0..*] A list of application-level errors (if any) that occurred when eBay processed the request.
Applicable values:
Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
See Errors By Number.
repeatable: [0..*] This optional element carries a list of context-specific error variables that indicate details about the error condition. These are useful when multiple instances of ErrorType are returned.
[ attribute ParamID ] string Conditionally This optional element carries a list of context-specific error variables that indicate details about the error condition. These are useful when multiple instances of ErrorType are returned.
Applicable values:
If the source of the problem is within the application (such as a missing required element), change the application before you retry the request.
- If the problem is due to end-user input data, please alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for them to correct the data. Once the problem in the application or data is resolved, you can attempt to re-send the request to eBay.
- If the source of the problem is on eBay's side, An application can retry the request as-is a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form.
See the Error handling section of the Making a Trading API call guide for more information.
When a warning occurs, the error is returned in addition to the business data. In this case, you do not need to retry the request (as the original request was successful). However, depending on the cause or nature of the warning, you might need to contact either the end user or eBay to effect a long term solution to the problem to prevent it from reoccurring in the future.
Code so that your app gracefully handles any future changes to this list.
Note: GetCategories and other Trading API calls are designed to retrieve very large sets of metadata that change once a day or less often. To improve performance, these calls return cached responses when you request all available data (with no filters). When this occurs, this time value reflects the time the cached response was created. Thus, this value is not necessarily when the request was processed. However, if you specify an input filter to reduce the amount of data returned, the calls retrieve the latest data (not cached). When this occurs, this time value does reflect when the request was processed.
Detail Controls
DetailLevel
This call does not support varying Detail Levels. You do not need to pass DetailLevel in the request.
Samples
New to making API calls? Please see Making a Call.
Note: Some item IDs, user IDs, or other data in these samples might no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, you can substitute current eBay data in your requests.
Sets alert and notification preferences.
Description
Seller m***************r sets her notification preferences so that she can get SOAP notifications emailed to her when her listings undergo events. She wants notifications that confirm her items are listed and that tell her when a buyer has bid on a listed item, that an auction has ended, and that the buyer has left feedback on the sale.
Input
XML format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SetNotificationPreferencesRequest xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<RequesterCredentials>
<eBayAuthToken>A*******3</eBayAuthToken>
</RequesterCredentials>
<ApplicationDeliveryPreferences>
<AlertEmail>mailto://a****@*****************.com</AlertEmail>
<AlertEnable>Enable</AlertEnable>
<ApplicationEnable>Enable</ApplicationEnable>
<ApplicationURL>https://m****************.com</ApplicationURL>
<DeviceType>Platform</DeviceType>
</ApplicationDeliveryPreferences>
<UserDeliveryPreferenceArray>
<NotificationEnable>
<EventType>BidReceived</EventType>
<EventEnable>Enable</EventEnable>
</NotificationEnable>
<NotificationEnable>
<EventType>Feedback</EventType>
<EventEnable>Enable</EventEnable>
</NotificationEnable>
<NotificationEnable>
<EventType>EndOfAuction</EventType>
<EventEnable>Enable</EventEnable>
</NotificationEnable>
<NotificationEnable>
<EventType>ItemListed</EventType>
<EventEnable>Enable</EventEnable>
</NotificationEnable>
</UserDeliveryPreferenceArray>
</SetNotificationPreferencesRequest>
Output
XML format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SetNotificationPreferencesResponse xmlns="urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents">
<Timestamp>2019年11月06日T22:45:39.924Z</Timestamp>
<Ack>Success</Ack>
<Version>1127</Version>
<Build>E1127_CORE_APINOTIFY_19078619_R1</Build>
</SetNotificationPreferencesResponse>
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